Noise in a radar echo caused by untargeted built or natural landscape features.
Example sentencesExamples
Lifting radar platforms off the ground to reduce ground clutter obstructions from buildings and other urban ‘terrain’ is another option being examined.
Echoes from such so-called ground clutter were suppressed using custom internally written software.
Most of the returns seen via the public site are ‘clean’ of ground clutter (permanent echoes).
At all radar sites, low trees or hills near the radar were used as a radar fence to reduce ground clutter and facilitate detection of birds at short range.
Diving low wouldn't do, since the flat desert did not offer much ground clutter to conceal her fighter in.
Definition of ground clutter in US English:
ground clutter
noun
Noise in a radar echo caused by untargeted built or natural landscape features.
Example sentencesExamples
Diving low wouldn't do, since the flat desert did not offer much ground clutter to conceal her fighter in.
Lifting radar platforms off the ground to reduce ground clutter obstructions from buildings and other urban ‘terrain’ is another option being examined.
At all radar sites, low trees or hills near the radar were used as a radar fence to reduce ground clutter and facilitate detection of birds at short range.
Most of the returns seen via the public site are ‘clean’ of ground clutter (permanent echoes).
Echoes from such so-called ground clutter were suppressed using custom internally written software.